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The diffusion of scientific journals analyzed through citations

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  • Pedro Alvarez
  • Antonio Pulgarín

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A method is described for analyzing the diffusion of scientific journals, using the Rasch model as the measuring instrument. It is applied to the 10‐year distribution of citations to journals of the Subject Category “Physics” by year of publication of cited articles with data obtained from the SCI Journal Citation Reports of ISI for the year 1994. Diffusion in a scientific field would be regarded as the dissemination of knowledge, channeled through citations that are distributed over different periods of time and propagated by means of scientific journals: here it is considered to be a latent variable defined by a particular set of items (the citations made in different time periods), and the Rasch model is used as an instrument for measuring that variable. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Pedro Alvarez & Antonio Pulgarín, 1997. "The diffusion of scientific journals analyzed through citations," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 48(10), pages 953-958, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:48:y:1997:i:10:p:953-958
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199710)48:103.0.CO;2-W
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    1. Mutz, Rüdiger & Daniel, Hans-Dieter, 2018. "The bibliometric quotient (BQ), or how to measure a researcher’s performance capacity: A Bayesian Poisson Rasch model," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 1282-1295.

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